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Why, Why
"Why, Why" is a song written by Wayne Walker and Mel Tillis, performed by Carl Smith, and released on the Columbia label. In September 1957, it entered ''Billboard'' magazine's country chart, peaked at No. 2, and remained on the chart for 19 weeks. In ''Billboard''s annual poll of country music disc jockeys, it was rated No. 13 among the "Favorite C&W Records" of 1957. It was also ranked No. 18 on ''Billboard''s 1954 year-end country and western chart tracking the number of plays by disc jockeys. See also * Billboard Top Country & Western Records of 1954 Billboard Top Country & Western Records of 1954 is made up of two year-end charts compiled by '' Billboard'' magazine ranking the year's top country and western records based on record sales and juke box plays. Hank Snow's "I Don't Hurt Anymore" w ... References {{Carl Smith Carl Smith (musician) songs 1957 songs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Smith (musician)
Carl Milton Smith (March 15, 1927 – January 16, 2010) was an American country music, country singer. Known as "Mister Country", he was one of the genre's most successful male artists during the 1950s, scoring 30 top-10 ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' hits (21 of which were consecutive). Smith's success continued well into the 1970s, when he had a charting single every year but one. In 1952, Smith married June Carter Cash, June Carter, with whom he had daughter Carlene Carter, Carlene, the couple divorced in 1956. His eldest daughter Carlene was also the stepdaughter of fellow late country singer Johnny Cash, who was subsequently married to his ex-wife Carter. He later married Goldie Hill, and they had three children together. In 2003, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. According to the Hollywood Walk of Fame website, he was a "drinking companion" to Johnny Cash, his daughter's stepfather. Biography Early career Smith was born in Maynardville, Tennessee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country Music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, old-time, and American folk music forms including Appalachian, Cajun, Creole, and the cowboy Western music styles of Hawaiian, New Mexico, Red Dirt, Tejano, and Texas country. Country music often consists of ballads and honky-tonk dance tunes with generally simple form, folk lyrics, and harmonies often accompanied by string instruments such as electric and acoustic guitars, steel guitars (such as pedal steels and dobros), banjos, and fiddles as well as harmonicas. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history. The term ''country music'' gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to '' hillbilly music'', with "country music" being used today to describe many styles and subgenres. It came to encomp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music, Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese Conglomerate (company), conglomerate Sony. It was founded on January 15, 1889, evolving from the Graphophone#Commercialization, American Graphophone Company, the successor to the Volta Laboratory and Bureau#Commercialization of phonograph patents, Volta Graphophone Company. Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in the recorded sound business, and the second major company to produce records. From 1961 to 1991, its recordings were released outside North America under the name CBS Records International, CBS Records to avoid confusion with EMI's Columbia Graphophone Company. Columbia is one of Sony Music's four flagship record labels, alongside former longtime rival RCA Records, as well as Arista Records and Epic Records. Artists who have recorded for Columbia include AC/DC, Adele, Aerosmith, Julie And ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mel Tillis
Lonnie Melvin Tillis (August 8, 1932 – November 19, 2017) was an American country music singer and songwriter. Although he recorded songs since the late 1950s, his biggest success occurred in the 1970s as part of the outlaw country movement, with a long list of Top 10 hits. Tillis' biggest hits include " I Ain't Never", "Good Woman Blues", and "Coca-Cola Cowboy". On February 13, 2012, President Barack Obama awarded Tillis the National Medal of Arts for his contributions to country music. He also won the Country Music Association Awards' most coveted award, Entertainer of the Year. Tillis was a member of the Grand Ole Opry, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and Country Music Hall of Fame. Additionally, he was known for his stutter, which did not affect his singing voice. His daughter is 1990s country hitmaker Pam Tillis. Early life Mel Tillis was born in Tampa, Florida, US. His parents were Burma (née Rogers; 1907–1990) and Lonnie Lee Tillis (1907–1981). While he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard (magazine)
''Billboard'' (stylized as ''billboard'') is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation. The magazine provides music charts, news, video, opinion, reviews, events, and style related to the music industry. Its music charts include the Hot 100, the 200, and the Global 200, tracking the most popular albums and songs in different genres of music. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows. ''Billboard'' was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegan's interest in 1900 for $500. In the early years of the 20th century, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs, and burlesque shows, and also created a mail service for travelling entertainers. ''Billboard'' began focusing more on the music industry as the jukebox, phonograph, and radio became commonplace. Many topics it covered were spun-off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard Top Country & Western Records Of 1954
Billboard Top Country & Western Records of 1954 is made up of two year-end charts compiled by ''Billboard'' magazine ranking the year's top country and western records based on record sales and juke box plays. Hank Snow's "I Don't Hurt Anymore" was the year's No. 1 record on both the record sales and juke box charts. " One by One", a duet by Kitty Wells and Red Foley, ranked No. 2 on both charts. Webb Pierce had four of the year's top 10 best-selling records with " Slowly" (No. 3), "Even Tho" (No. 4), " More and More" (No. 6), and "There Stands the Glass" (No. 8). Other artists with multiple records on the year-end lists included Slim Whitman and Eddy Arnold Richard Edward Arnold (May 15, 1918 – May 8, 2008) was an American country music singer who performed for six decades. He was a Nashville sound (country/popular music) innovator of the late 1950s, and scored 147 songs on the ''Billboard'' cou ... with three each. See also * List of Billboard number-one country songs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Smith (musician) Songs
Carl or Karl Smith may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Carl Frithjof Smith (1859–1917), Norwegian portrait and genre painter * Carl "Tatti" Smith (born 1908, date of death unknown), American jazz trumpeter *Carl Smith (musician) (1927–2010), American country music singer Sports *Carl Smith (ice hockey) (1917–1967), Canadian ice hockey winger *Carl "Buster" Smith (1921–1992), American pool checkers and international draughts player *Carl Smith (American football) (born 1948), American football coach *Carl Smith (rower) (1962–2010), British lightweight rower * Carl Smith (footballer) (born 1979), English professional footballer *Carl Smith (game designer), American game designer Others * Carl Smith (businessman) (1897–1979), New Zealand businessman * Carl Michael Smith (born 1944), American businessman and politician from Oklahoma *Carl Herbert Smith (1950–2004), American computer scientist *Carl Smith, American politician, candidate in the United States House of Rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
